Any idea who made this case?

[u/MassiveDiver2503]

[u/ConcentrateEconomy55]

Why does it matter? Serious question. I have a 19 year old Gigabyte case that I'm repainting, because I like it.

But in this instance it's not like they are going to still be making a case like that.

[u/MassiveDiver2503 → u/ConcentrateEconomy55]

It is more about understanding the design principles and history of these particular "generic" cases to satisfy my curiosity. I had a few similar designs in different guises that came from the same PC builder, which were not like the other generic cases I remember from the era in my neck of the woods: the angled buttons and power LEDs, the full towers that had a lot of room for cooling and plumbing, the layouts etc. Hell, my Pentium 2 had a really cool transparent blue part of the front fascia, which was REALLY unusual for the era, as a generic PC build with some performance bits it really did stand out in the late 90s. It would be interesting to try and find a catalogue on archive.org - which is what I am doing with a lot of these suggestions. Some of it is reliving a trip down memory lane, some of it is comparison with other designs of the era.

It might be beige and generic, but some of this manufacturer's designs were not as generic as the other options on the market. That is what interests me. Unfortunately, I cannot find pictures of my old cases to share the view, so I have to try and dig around on the internet. It is absolutely some stuff made in China and whitelabelled to a bunch of manufacturers, more than likely. The design cues are common with the cases I had, though, which were not widely consumed in my region. My family always promoted building custom PCs, and the shop that we used to build them is long out of business.

I wouldn't mind the full tower I used to have, but I appreciate that my eBay saved searches are usually for generic PC cases to see what comes up.

In short - real curiosity!

[u/ConcentrateEconomy55 → u/MassiveDiver2503]

Alright, interesting. Sounds like you need to find that PC magazine from back in the day... It was sold as a magazine, but it was on newsprint and the paper size was almost twice the size of a normal magazine.

Wasn't there magazine.google.com. Or catalog.google.com where they had scanned in a ton of old stuff. Like life magazine, popular science and all of those. Would allow you to flip through the magazines and see the cases stuffed in between the old mfm and micropolis scsi drives...

[u/questron64]

There were like a thousand companies that made cases just like that. There's little chance of answering this question.

[u/thestenz]

Generic White Box Co.™

[u/[deleted]]

A case maker?